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Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)

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  • Oliver Vanden Eynde
  • Alexander Moradi
  • Patrick M. Kuhn

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Using a panel of 6,784 Kenyan police officers, we show how the rise of ethnic politics encroached on their daily behavior during Kenya's independence period (1957-1970). We find a significant deterioration in discipline after Kenya's first multiparty election in 1961 for those police officers of ethnic groups associated with the dominant KANU party. These effects are not driven by the selection of policemen, as individual officers change their behavior when their ethnic group gains political power. While we find no evidence of favoritism within the police, we show that shocks to political dominance can still change attitudes and job performance.

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  • Oliver Vanden Eynde & Alexander Moradi & Patrick M. Kuhn, 2016. "Trickle-Down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)," CSAE Working Paper Series 2016-21, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    • Handle: RePEc:csa:wpaper:2016-21
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    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements

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